Evening Star Newspaper, July 10, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Wenather Bureau Forecast.) Local thundershowers this afternoon; generally fair and somewhat cooler to- night; tomorrow fair. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 96, .m. yesterday; lowest, 73, al oday. Full report on page 9 Closing New York Stocks, Page 12 matter D. at 4:15 t 6 am. intered as second cla; post office, Washingto No. 31,116. he WASHINGTON, D. C, ening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “Pfom Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes * as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,578 WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1929—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. () Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. e AMERICAN PILOTS PRESS ON 0 ROME AFTER BRIEF REST! ON SPANISH SOIL Williams and Yancey Take| 0ff for Italian Capital, Hop- | Neither Arrested as Smug- ing to Complete Journey| gling Case Is Presented Before Dark. Kuomintang of America Asks That Mrs. Ying Kao Be Given Oriental Justice. ENVOY HERE SILENT | By the Associatea Press. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 10.—A | demand that Mrs. Ying Kao, wife of the | Chinese vice consul in San Francisco, ‘be tried under Chinese law and put to ldeath if convicted for her alleged pnrt' Pathfinder About 3,250|in bringing a large consignment of | o " PR, opium to this country, was made here Miles, Virtually a Duplication |jast night by the executive committee of Yellow Bird's Feat a Month/ of the Kuomintang of America, | The committee, representing the | American section of the political or- ganization behind the Nanking govern- | LACK OF FUEL CAUSED LANDING AT ALBERICIA Covers Previous. :QNT?N?F‘R‘ Spain, "d"l} 10 0P, plication of Oriental justice to Mrs. | —The airplane Pathfinder, man- g, case, and haa aemanded of C. C. | ned by Roger Q. Willlams and]yy, cninese Minister in Washington, | Capt. Lewis A. Yancey, took off at | that the woman be returned to China | 11:20 a.m. for Rome, continuing | for trial. | a flight from Old Orchard, Me. Death Penalty Provided. | Undaunted by fatigue and ill-| It was expla&;ed m&zd(henmnznlnust‘ i i government_had enacted stringent laws ness, the A.mencan aviators, set Soainst traficking in oplum in China, out to finish today what theyand that such laws provided the death could not quite conclude yester- | penalty in case of their violation by ame ¢ rsons connected with the government. day — their flight from Old | PZit a0, upon the advice of friends, | Orchard, Me., to Rome. | terminated his connection with the | Lifting their plane from the aban- consulate. Neither Mrs. Kao nor her laced under arrest. doned! alrdrome:at/Albericta; nearifiere, | et Y e D e s Dars. of | at 11:20 am. (5:20 a.m. Eastern stand- | the case was laid before United States ard time), they dipped once in saluze!;*'-w:gg 'g:oree H%fi;g%gvfizz :;%d | inve: were Ve 4 and headed due east along the 850-mile | yoincq 87 TS\ e personal effects. | Toute to the Italian capital. They hoped | These were in the form of notebooks 1o take less than 10 hours for the trip, | and manuscript, all written in Chinese. | arriving at Ciamino airfield, south of | . Wait Translation. | | ment, anncunced it had voted for the | the city, before dark. | S : 5 | Customs officers awaited the tran Vbl a2l |tion of these documents in the hope They were two tired and weary avi-| that they would throw light on the ators, during their long flight from OId | identity of members of an alleged opiwn Orchard to Albericia, which ended in a | ring of international scope. | landing forced by lack of fuel at 9:30 | The opium was found in trunks and | p.m. yesterday (3:30 p.m. Eastern stand- | suit cases brought from China last | ard time). The nervous tension kept week in Mrs. Kao's name, She pmmz-{‘ them going. ™ ied her ignorance of the contents of | But once here the reception sapped ' the baggage and said she had been the last of their strength and it was!persuaded by “influential friends” in | difficult to get either Willlams or Yancey | China to bring it in under Consular | HUNT FOR SUNKEN 'VICE CONSUL’S WIFE FACES POSSIBLE DEATH PENALTY 'FOR BRINGING OPIUMIN U. S. DR. C. C. WU. Chinese Minister to Washington, who may act in the opium smuggling case.| SUBMARN I VA | Efforts to Communicate With | L-47, 330 Feet Down, | Are of No Avail. LONDON, July 10 (#.—The admiralty announced late today that the position of the sunken submarine H-47 had been buoyed, but that bad weather had forced the salvage | fieet to withdraw temporarily to the shelter of Milford Haven. By the Associated Press. PEMBROKE, Wales, July 10.—The British submarine L-69 today dived in | the vicinity of the stricken H-47 and | tried to communicate with the 21 men | trapped within her, but without avail. | The L-69 tried to communicate with | the H-47 by sound telegraphy, using a | bell with Morse code, but there have | | { | 1 | | fectly, the message declared. | from bed this morning. Yancey arcse first, but went back to sleep when Wil- liams would only mutter “yes” to en- ireaties to get up. Williams finally arose at 8:30 o'clock, Yancey joining him shortly afterward. After finally getting up the two avi- ators had breakfast, and looked over hundreds of cablegrams of felicitation before leaving for the abandoned air field at Albericia, five kilometers distant. They supervised refueling there and| completed inspection of -their . plane “prior to taking off on the last lap of their long flight. They estimated their trip yesterday as having entailed 3,400 miles during 31 hours and 42 minutes flying time. During the night an Eng- glish aviator named Harris went over; their machine thoroughly. ‘Williams Slightly 1. The fiyers spent the night at the Hotel Real, conducted by an American. Williams, who became slightly ill from | the effects of too much food so soon after the long abstinence enforced dur- ing the flight, retired first at about 2| am. Yancey stayed longer at the en- tertainment and reception offered by | the Club Maritimo and did not go to| bed until 4 a. | Arising at 7:30, he remarked he wasi sleepier than at any time during the flight and needed 40 more hours in bed to fit himself for a fight. { The aviators were acclaimed by thou- | sands when they arrived at the air field | this morning. Beautiful senoritas who only a few weeks ago greeted the French Yellow Bird aviators when| they landed, threw roses at them, 3 teal Spanish farewell. Civil Gov. Sali-| quet and the English consul gave the officlal “adios.” They saw their plane wa ded only with 75 gallons of gasoline and had it filled with an additional 75 gallons, providing the 150 gallons they deemed necessary for the ilight to Rome. It was_believed they would have no dif- ficulty in rising_above ihe Pyrenees. Williams was first in the cabin, Lewis stopping to twist the propeller. Then from the cabin both waved at the shouting multitude and started the plane down the short field. It rose in| 20 seconds, dipped once in salute and | disappeared to the east. Fell Short of Goal. Completing a transatlantic crossing, but falling short of their goal, Rome, williams and Capt. Yancey landed the | Pathfinder at Albeceria Airfield, near here, at 9:30 o'clock last night (3:30 p.m. Eastern standard time). | The landing ended a flight of about . 3250 miles, occupying 31 hours and | 42 minutes, which was almost a dupli- cation of the feat of Jean Assolant and two companions in the Yellow Bird a month ago. The Yellow Bird’s landing was at Comillas, 20 miles away. The Pathfinder appeared first over Comillas and then Santander, just at dark, one of the aviators waving his hands to watchers to indicate an in- tended landing. The plane circled over the field at Albeceria, an abandoned airdrome, and, by the light of a huge bonfire which the natives built, landed | without difficulty. The aviators’ first words were, “Where | are we?” ‘When informed that they were at Mrs. Kao declined | been no answering signals. | Diver Bell, reputed to be the most ex- | | perienced in the navy, was taken from | o e e | the eruiser Renown and equipped with | | Chinese Minister Withholds Comment | a special German diving suit in which | on Case of Vice Consul's Wife. | he will try to locate the missing men. The Chinese Minister, Chao-Chu Wu, | It was considered doubtful, however, has not yet received the demand of the | that he would be able to descend t: Kunomintang’s _executive committee | 4o 330 160 depth in which the H-l:‘ | franking privileges. to reval their names. | HASN'T RECEIVED REQUEST. | fiving club. Must be capable and re- that Mrs. Ying Kao, wife of the Chinese | vice consul at San Francisco, be re- turned to China to be tried and put to | death, if convicted, for her alleged part | in bringing opium into this country, it ! ‘was stated at the legation this morning, | and no comment was forthcoming on | the case. Minister Wu is keeping informed with regard to each new development | in the case and will take steps, if neces- | sary, to see that Mrs. Kao is given a fair trial in this country, if she is formally charged with smuggling by the | United States Government. | 1t is probable that the request of the | Kunomintang that she be sent to China will be forwarded by the Minister to the Chinese government. If this Gov- ernment should approve that course, Mr. Wu will take the matter up at once (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) FIRST “HELP WANTED” FLYING AD APPEARS| Pilot | D. C. Air Legion Secks Through Star’s Columns to Assist in Training. What is thought to be the first classi- fied “help wanted” advertisement for an airplane pilot to appear in a daily newspaper. in this part of the country appears today in the advertising col- umns of The Evening Star. Under “Help Wanted—Men” appears | he following: “Pilot, instructor for liable, Can assure as many hours as desired.” The advertisement was inserted by the District of Columbia Air Legion, & co-operative organization composed of student fiyers who have banded togeth- er as a fiying club to share the expenses of learning to fly and obtain their li- censes as pilots. ‘The new pilot is needed to assist the present pilot instructor, Howard Prince, who is flying with students every day at College Park, Md., aviation field. Since last October the legion members have purchased two training planes, in | which Pilot Prince has given flying in struction to 54 members. Two mem- bers now are “soloing” and eight others are ready for solo flights. At a special meeting of the legion last night in the organization’s head- quarters in the International Building it was voted to restrict membership to 150 and to limit membership only to | those interested in learning to fly. Pur- { chase of a third training plane is be- ria, five kilometers outside San- fanaar d a few miles further from = (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) SANTANDER, Spain, July the night I took the Durin; %ly ill and went been sligh! I saw a ship beneath us. I was u‘:xable to dmmfu down almost vertically unti our position for th of the latter we esca its full which at times was f'goo feet. much clearer. 1 A it o v AR A T I Tt FLYER’S OWN STORY BY CAPT. LEWIS A. YANCEY. (As Told to the Associated Press Correspondent.) Vi able to see the sea. I near the Azores we were not le to see e biliams, who had to sleep. At about 2 or 3 o'clock Tuesday morning, when we were about 250 miles from the Azores, ish its nationality, but I dropped I was just over its prow, crew know by my muneuhvers th:it I wanted them to bi ose who woul _ The brisk descent awoke Williams, who told me not to do that any more, since it might cost us dear. Tuesday and the other at 8 am. We experienced two storms trip, one of these at 6 am. Bogh drove us somewhat off our course, 2 3 This extreme height continued until passed Cape Ortega, when we flew lower, the field of vision ing planned, it was announced by Alva ! Sole,” president. | 10 UP.—Until .we were very the fog cleared some_whlt and letting its cast be waiting to hear from us. | of little importance during the and upon the occasion ; force by climbinb to an altitude and we Oportom‘ ' PRECE LI | deep-water diving apparatus could be 'PLUNGE INTO BAY lies. May Be Alive. An Evening News dispatch to London | today quoted an admiralty official as | saying: “There is & possibility that | some one may be alive on the sunken submarine H-47. We shall carry on until we have satisfied ourselves.” An impressive array of life-saving ap- paratus—the most elaborate the British Navy could muster—was in position over the spot where the H-47 went ‘I{D:’Zn yesterday after collision with the First efforts were to discover the position of the sunken vessel, which, it was believed, may have slipped from its original location in the heavy weather of last night. A buoy was moored at the spot where oil bubbles indicated it went down. Divers aboard a diving ship were ready to descend and attempt to fasten tackle to the boat, despite the great depth, as soon as her position was as- certained. 16 Boats in Search. Four mine-sweepers, an anti-subma- rine flotilla of five vessels and seven destroyers searched the area while the lifting lighters made ready. All waited a decision whether the navy’s new used with ary prospect of success. Continuing rough seas and a heavy,| low-lying mist hampered the salvage| work. As the morning advanced tie wind increased and it appeared more and more probable that efforts to lo- cate the sunken vessel would be in .ain. ‘The admiralty revised its list of cas- ualties to 24. Lieut. Bickmore, 2 sub- officers, 2 telegraphers, 16 artificers, seamen and stokers, who sank with the H-47, were listed officially as missing. A subofficer and a signalman of the L-12 also were listed as missing. One seaman of the L-12 died of irjuries Only two men aboard the H-47 were saved. Until there is an official inquiry the public is not expected to learn the de- tails of the disaster, inasmuch as in ac- cordance with naval customs, all con- cerned were bound to secrecy. There is (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) KILLS TWO FLYERS Marine Corps Soldiers Die in Sight of Companions at Squan- tum Base. By the Associated Press. QUINCY, Mass, July 10.—Second Lieut. George B. Stephens, 34, United States Marine Corps, and Gunnery Sergt. Ernest D. Jones, 31, were in- stantly killed here late yesterday when their plane plunged from an altitude of nearly 2,000 feet into the waters of Squantum Bay, directly off the Squan- tum naval base. Although their ship fell within reach CALIFORNIA FLYERS, NOW N 196TH HOUR, GET MORE FUEL AS ALL RECORDS FALL Motor Functions Perfectly, Two Pilots Say, as Endur- ance Plane Roars Toward 200-Hour Mark. CRAFT TO STAY ALOFT “UNTIL ENGINE QUITS” |- Pair Had Set 400 Hours as Goal at; Start—Both in Good Physical Condition, Increasing Chances of | Success—Officials Believe Land- ing Time Still Is Far Away. By the Associated Press CULVER CITY, Calif., July 10. —The ninth day of the record- | breaking refueling endurance | flight of the biplane Angelino be- | gan today with the ship passing its 195th heur in the air at 10:29 a.m., 21 hours more than the old record of 174 hours 51 seconds. Shortly after 8 o'clock a 15- | minute contact was made with a | refueling ship and 100 gallons of ; gasoline transferred. The message requesting more gasoline, was dropped by L. W. Mendell and R. B. Reinhart| shortly befcre 7 a.m. today. The motor was functioning per- Ground officials believed that the landing of the plane still was many hours away. They continued circling above Culver City in the plane, deter- | mined to stay aloft until their motor fails. Had Hoped to Fly 400 Hours. When the flyers would come down remained a question. Orlg-‘,‘ inally they hoped to remain up 400 hours. Alrport officials con- ceded them a chance of stretch- ing the time to 200 hours or more when they passed the former | record of 174 hours 59 seconds, established in Cleveland four days ago, without showing any marked signs of physical exhaus- tion. Before taking on a full night's supply of fuel last night, the pilots dropped a note reiterating that they would con- tinue the record smashing flight until their engine falls apart. A. E. Mc- Manuss chief backer of the enterprise, declared then that “a true endurance test, to determine how long the motor would run,” was the object of the con- tinued flight. Joyous Antics Shew Condition. The Cleveland record, made by Roy L. Mitchell and Byron K. Newcomb, was broken by Mendell and Reinhart at 2:30:29 p.m. yesterday. The fine physical condition of the flyers then was evidenced by their joyous antics. Reinhart stood in the rear cockpit waving jubilantly to the cheering crowd ! From railed today. jured, Coast were chief below. Mendell, chief pilot, dipped the | Day lane low over the field, also raising his | called ead to display a wide grin. ! The biplane then was spiraled high and dived down, once more to SwoOp close above the ground, and off again| to add more hours to the record. The new holders of the record con- ceived the idea of attempting to set a new mark while in a Juarez, Mexico, cafe shortly before James Kelly and R. L. Robbins, Texas flyers, started on a flight at Fort Worth that ended in their establishing a record of 172 hours 32 minutes and 1 second. % Paul Whittier, one of the backers of Mendell and Reinhart in their present record-breaking flight, related that Mendell suggested it while he, Reinhart and Whittier were dining in the cafe with Robbins, Mendell's close friend. “If you can make it in that old crate,” Mendell was quoted as remark- ing to Robbins, who was planning the Fort Worth flight, “we’ll go out and| 8resc break any record you set.” The “old crate” was the rebuilt plane in which, with a reconditioned single motor, Robbins and Kelly astounded the avia- tion world by smashing the tri-motored Question Mark’s refueling flight record of just over 150 hours at Los Angeles last January. ‘Whittier said Mendell, Reinhart and himself went to Dallas to purchase two biplanes, which they flew to California Just before the start of the Fort Worth flight. After arriving here, the three decided that a different type of plane was needed for the attempt. They purchased the Angeleno. Their refueling plane, Whittier added, is one of the planes purchased in Texas. PUE SR Thirty Perish in Landslide. TOKIO, July 10 (#).—Thirty deaths were reported today from Kagoshima prefecture, where there was a landslide during the night which. precipitated a fishing village into the sea. It was due to excessive rains. lation | the Rev. e Four Killed in Mine. BLAENANON, Wales, July 10 (#).— Four men were and severat-seri- ously injured today in an explosion at the Milfraen mining rlt. Many miners were still in the pit from which rescue squads 'were trying to extricate them. ~ The Price of From street racks, newsstands and news- boys, will remain at 2 a Copy PAY NO MORE soclated “nobody is dead yet, but several are | expected to die,” as a result of injuries sustained in the wreck. She described the wreck as “very bad.” D. C. SUNDAY LAWS Several more day, and it was said the’investigation \ TWOSCORE HURT IN TRAIN WRECK |Several Reported Near Death‘ as Five Cars Run Into Carolina Swamp. By the Associated Press. ! ROCKY MOUNT, N. C, July 0.— 40 to 60 persons were injured, some of them seriously, when five cars on fast northbound train No. 84 on the | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad were de- | 2 miles north of Enfleld, N. C. Five persons, said to be seriously in- were brought to the Atlantic Line Hospital here and hospital authorities said at noon that they werc preparing for more L. Ransome, r at Enfield, . W. groce! told the Associated Press in Raleigh that approximately 60 injured persons taken from the wreck, but that none was dead. Two women were most | seriously injured. Most of the injured were being taken to Rocky Mount hospitals, he said. The wreck occurred on a shat near the city limits of Enfield. Pullman Ransome said. Mrs. James F. Whitehead, wife of the curve Five cars “went into the swamp,” of F:lloe of Enfleld, told the As- ess over long distance that INSPECTORS BROIL AS MERCURY | CLIMBS TO 102 IN PORTABLE Parents' Protests That Buildings Are Like Ovens! on Warm Days Are Sustained., Engineers Find. NATIONS CONDEMN PROPOSED TARIFFS IN'FLOOD OF NOTES PROTESTING RATES Spain Threatens to Denounce Present Arrangement of Favored Trade Relations Unless Change Is Made. AUSTRIA WARNS OF LOSS OF COMMERCE WITH U. S. Senator Harrison Declares Resent- ment Is Deepest in History. Warns Against Retaliation by Powers Through Import Em- bargo. | :B’ the Associated Press. | A flood of protests against the pending tariff bill sent by foreign trade associations and govern- ments, including one by Spain threatening to denounce the exist- ing modus vivendi of most favored trade relations with the United States, was made public today by the Senate finance committee. The Spanish representation, under date of April 26 and signed by Primo de Rivera, Spanish | premier, under his title of Mar- Temperature of 102 degrees was found at 11:30 o'clock this morning in a Jues de Estella, Spanish minister room of one of the four portables at Cleveland School, by District engineers, ‘for foreign affairs, and given to who are inspecting the portables. ithe American Ambassador at Protests to the Board of Education from parents, who contend that lhe;Madrid, was submitted to the portables are like ovens on warm days and refrigerators in cold weather, led | Senate finance committee by Sec- to a survey of equipment. On a blackboard in a portable by 38 pupils, the engineers today found written the last school day's official | ‘occupled temperature record, showing readings of 83 degrees at 9 am.; 98 degrees at 11 a.m., and 103 degrees at 2 p.m. This building is one of the few now in use which, despite the flimsy con- struction, are not equipped with a ceil- ing of composition panels and lignt timbers to prevent the extreme heat under the roof from pressing down upon the heads of the occupants. The ceiling, however, does not aid materially in affording insulation froi extreme temperatures, for a portable o another type adjoining showed a tem- perature of 100 when the inspectors were doing their work today. This read- ing was obtained despite the paper com- position ‘board ceiling. ‘While the District engineers were making their examination at the Cleve- !land school group, & staff of District m | than violence, ?|with sheet metal. repair shop carpenters were making needed repairs to the group. Cracked doors with openings large enough to admit a man's fist and resulting en- tirely from age-induced decay rather were being sheathed Recently a new floor had been laid in the ceilingless portable in an at- tempt to protect the children's feet from the cold from the ground, a scant yard below. This building, a little boy who at- tended classes it during the past (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) NEW YORK BANK'S BARRED MOTORISTS RESOURGES SHRINK - RULING IS SOUGHT URGED ON HOOVER $4,000,000 Assets Fade Into Supreme Court Asked to De- Delegation of Lord's Day Alliance Asks President to Support Proposed Legislation. A delegation representing the Lord's | Alliance of the United States at the White House today and the President’s support of legis- proposing the prohibition of un- necessary work on Sunday in the Dis- trict of Columbia and otherwise pre- venting the “commercialization” of the | Sabbath day in the Capital. In a brief talk during this audience Rev. David G. Wylie of New York, president of the alliance, stated that it is' significant that all of the States ex- cept two and the District of Columbia have Sunday laws which have been de- clared constitutional by the highest courts. He declared that his organization is of the opinion that it seems reasonable that the home of the Nation's Capital should set a good example to all the people and in the interests of bringing about Sunday laws for the District he that the President give his great urged mrSuence in the movement to have Con- c enact such a law for this city. He said further that the object of Sunday laws is to provide citizens with rest from toil. The President received the delegation very graciously, but was represented as not committing himself. Others delegation included Bishop James non, Canon Willlam Sheafe New York, H. L. Bowlby of New York, general secretary of the ‘Lord’s Day | Alliance, and Rev. W. S. Abernethy, Edgar B. Henderson, Colin H. Living- stone, Rev. E. L. Crawford, secretary of Methodist Board of Temperance; in the Can- Chase of George F. Bentley and Rev. Andrew R. Bird of the Central Presby- terian Church of Washington, e SR CAROL IS LINKED WITH FOILED COUP Papers Confiscated by Rumanian Officials Are Signed in His Name. By the Assoclated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, July 10.— confiscated to- uonhunn wl:!eh wm ite | | | Only $500,000— Clients’ Face 75 Per Cent Loss. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 10.—A corps of Government accountants and post office inspectors today were investi-| grivers’ licenses canceled may by tak- | gating the collapse of the long estab- lished Clarke Brothers private bank to determine for United States Attorney Charles H. Tuttle whether the failure should be brought before a Federal commission or a Federal grand jury. The bank recently closed its doors and at that time, an announcement sald judicious handling of assets would permit payment of dollar for dollar to depositors. But a preliminary report by receivers disclosed that assets have shrunk from $4,000,000 to $500,000. threatening clients with a loss of at least 75 per cent. A tentative estimate of settlement was 5 cents to 25 cents on the dollar. After the receiver’s report was made public, Tuttle invited all creditors of the bank to submit their accounts to him, and already several hundred have adopted this suggestion. Tuttle said he was prepared to in- stitute an investigation under the laws prohibiting fraudulent bankruptcy and use of the mails to defraud. EXTRAS MAY STRIKE FOR LABOR RIGHTS Los Angeles Looks for Preliminary Walkout Tomorrow Against “Talkie™ Producers. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 10.—The Times today said talking motion picture extras who are members of Actors’ Equity Association have planned a pre- liminary strike which may be attempt- ed tomorrow. The newspaper said that Equity of- ficials, who are trying to force talking motion picture producers to refusg em- ployment to all but paid-up merhbers of the association, have set tomorrow as the last day in which members may -peen as_extras with non-members, without defying the organization. Producers feel that the proposed walk- out, if it takes place, will not cause them ‘embarrassment, it was said. ‘The proposed is an outgrowth of a demand made by Equity that Equity shop be established in the talk- ing motion picture industry. “;Iol‘shlnm clearing house, $4,622,- Treasury balance, $269,182,876.90. New York clearing house exchange, $1,642,000,000. ‘New York clearing house balance, $157,000,000.. | | | cide Status of Drivers Given Permits in Virginia. The District Commissioners today asked the Supreme Court to decide whether automobilists who have had ing up residence in Virginia obtain the right to operate automobiles on the streets of Washington. Charles H. Fred, alias Hamilton C. Fred, while a resident of Washington was granted a permit in November, 1926, to operate an automobile in the District. The permit was canceled in the following December. Fred moved to Virginia and in 1928 obtained a permit there. He was arrested in Washington in September, 1928, while driving a_car with a Virginia license. In the Police Court he was found guilty of violating the District traffic laws, but the Court of Appeals held that under, the reciprocal arrangement with Virginia he was entitled to oper- ate an automobile in Washington under a virginia permit. The District Commissioners declared in their petition to the Supreme Court that under the decision of the Court of Appeals “citizens of the District have absolutely no protection for their own safety or the safety of their property, because, no matter what offenses against the traffic laws are committed by individuals holding operators’ per- mits, issued by the director of traffic, be it reckless driving, leaving the scene of a collision without making identity known, operating while under the in- fluence of intoxicating liquor or drugs, operating a motor vehicle equipped with a smoke screen, eic., it is useless for the director of traffic to revoke and seek to take away the right of such individual to operate motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, because the Court of Appeals says if such individ- uals, after the revocation of their per- mits by the director, adopt the conven- jent expedient of stepping across the line into the State of Virginia or any other State, and there register motor vehicles and procure from such State an operator’s permit, they may come back and operate their motor vehicle in the District to their heart’s content.” FRIENDS’ PRANK FATAL TO YOUNG BRIDEGROOM By the Associgted Press. JENKINS, Ky, July 10—David Hughes, & 23-year-old bridegroom, was drowned last night when a party of friends threw him into the lake after serenading him and his bride at their newly established home here. After an investigation, police today arrested Willlam Wright, 25, and James Farmer, 27, .both married men with flmflklu, as the instigators of the fatal rank. pflugglues had wed about a month ago, but the marriage was not an- nounced until this week. Afte: Radio Programs—Page 24 their | pos retary Stimson, bearing with it a letter of comment by Secretary Mellon. The Spanish government pro- tested against the suggested in- creases of duty and sanitary reg- ulations on cork, olives, grapes, onions, dried fruits and revolvers. The Spanish Ambassador said that the bill would aggravate the “already hardly attractive position” in regard to the balance of trade between the coun- tries, by which Spain showed an annual loss of $51,000,000. France Files Protest. In transmitting-“lively protests” from “numerous groups of exporters and manufacturers,” the French : wrote that the situation “by whith the minimum French tariff has been grant- ed to almost all American merchandise without the slightest corresponding ad- vantage having been obtained for French trade, gives a serious character to these complaints which sems to merit the attention of the governments.” Objections were raised against the proposed duties on gloves, which the embassy contended “‘were attached with absolutely prohibitive duties”; plate glass, pharmaceutical preparations, and other items. France also noted a “menace” to her products in proposed duties on laces, velvets, embroideries, silk clothing of all kinds, French rugs and hides, Four notes to the Secretary of State from Prince De Ligne, Belgian Ambass- ador, protested the proposed tariff in- ! creases in the House bill on leather, | chemical products, asbestos and ceme: rabbit skins, preserved vegetables, on, floor coverings and rugs, photo products, window and plate glass, wire netting and bone glue. The Netherlands forwarded communi- cations from Dutch firms pointing out the possible effect of higher duties or glassware and brick, tulip bulbs, linsee.. oil, and sundry items. The communications contended Amer- ican oil crushers already are enjoying “an entirely unjust protection” and asked reconsideration of the proposed rates on cocoa and chocolate. Austria Threatens Trade Cut. The note from Austria declared “im- ports from the United States by far | exceed the exports from Austria to the United States,” and that the trade balance between the two countries in 1928 was $16,420,000 in favor of this country. “This state of affairs,” the note saiq; “is now seriously menaced by the tarl bill. In fact there are provisions in th ! bill which, if maintained in the final wording of the act, would wipe out } large portion of Austrian trade wita the United States.” Among the Austrian exports which the note declared would be “practica?y made impossible,” were hides, and hiis made of felt. ’ Switzerland called attention to the bill's increases in duties affecting her two most nationally and economically important industries—watches and em- broideries—and expressed the hope that the “tremendous increases proposed” would not be enacted until it is shown that they are a “real and unavoidable | requisite for the safeguard of American general interests.” Greece declared that American prod- ucts, agricultural and industrial, “holds first place in Greek imports,” and asked particular consideration in levying im- ts on rugs. “A heavier taxation on rugs, the man- ufacture of which is an exclusive refu- gee industry,” the Greek note said, “will have a disastrous effect on the well known "efforts of Greece to estab- lish these refugees and make them self- supporting.” Great Britain submitted a commu- nication by the director of agriculture for Bermuda in which he denied testi- mony at the tariff hearings thet Ber~ muda celery was “dumped in the Amer- ican market.” He contended this prod- uct did mot enter into unfair competi~ tion with domestic celery. Bahama Competition Is Denied. ‘The Governor of the Bahamas also asserted that Bahaman tomatoes in no way wmufiud with the Florida crop. The Free State government ex- " pressed particular concern over a pos- sible increase in rates on pickled n:ack- erel, woo\d and woolen g | British manufacturers” against higher i I ! The British Ambassador contended ‘(Continued on Page 3, 3)